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In the garden of my longing,
you are the rose that blooms at night,
your fragrance fills my quiet hours,
your beauty breaks the morning light.

I have known the taste of summer,
the whisper of a winter's thaw,
but...

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There is a language beyond speaking,
a word that lives behind the eye,
that passes in a single glance
between two hearts that wonder why.

You speak that language without meaning,
and I receive it without thought,
two instruments in...

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We walked the shore in evening silence,
the moon had laid a silver road
across the ocean's dark and trembling
surface, endlessly bestowed.

Your hand found mine without intention,
the way a wave finds sandy shore,
and in that touch...

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I did not know the world could tilt
upon a single moment's hinge,
until I turned and there you stood
and something broke along the fringe

of everything I thought was certain,
every wall I'd set in stone,
fell like...

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Childhood Poems

In a box beneath my window
lie the letters never sent,
full of words I meant to offer
and the silence that I lent.

I wrote you in the small of morning,
when the world had not yet woken,
when...

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A loyal friend does not arrive
with fanfare or a flag,
they simply show up every time
and carry half your bag.

They do not keep a tally,
they do not hold a score,
they are there before you call...

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We laughed at nothing in particular,
just the fact of being there,
the way two people who have found each other
learn to breathe the same air.

Late nights that stretched to morning,
stories we have told a hundred times—...

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The test of friendship is the silence—
whether it sits easy or grows tense,
whether you can share a quiet evening
and leave it full of good sense.

Some friendships need the constant filling,
the chatter to keep distance out,...

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They didn't ask what they could do,
they simply came and brought the food,
they sat beside me in the dark
and matched me where I stood.

They didn't need an explanation
or a breakdown of my grief—
they just...

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Friendship Poems

We grew up in the same soil,
drew water from the same deep well,
our roots entangled underground
in ways that only roots can tell.

The years may take us to different places,
the winds may bend us differently,
but...

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The great journeys are not one great step,
they are a thousand small ones made each day,
each ordinary morning's choosing
to keep moving on the way.

No single hour defines a life,
no single turning makes the whole—
it...

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One day I will look back and see
that this was the golden hour—
this ordinary Tuesday in October,
this coffee, this unhurried shower.

The life I'm living is already precious,
not the life that's somewhere ahead,
the remarkable is...

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There is great mercy in the morning,
in the way it comes regardless—
it does not check your record first,
it does not weigh the darkness.

It simply opens like a door
that has no memory of yesterday,
and offers...

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We are the sum of what we chose
in small, unheroic moments—
the word we swallowed or released,
the kindness and its opponents.

No single grand decision
makes the person that we are,
it is the choosing in the ordinary...

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Hindi Poems

Time is the river no one crosses twice,
the current moves in one direction,
carrying all we hold most dear
along its endless blue perfection.

Do not waste the water raging
at the banks that hold you in—
the river...

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There is a chair that holds the shape of you,
a hollow where you used to be,
the room still hears your voice in corners
and in the silence left for me.

Gone too soon—that phrase says nothing,
it is...

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When it rains I do not need to explain myself
to anyone—the sky has done it for me,
it pours out what I cannot put to words,
it weeps with democratic frequency.

There is a comfort in the rain's not...

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I keep the words I didn't say
in a room inside my chest,
they rattle in the nighttime hours
when everything else is at rest.

I should have said: I love you more than this,
I should have said: you...

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I did not know it was the last time,
the last time would have looked like any day—
there was nothing in that ordinary moment
to suggest you were already on your way.

We said the ordinary things,
we parted...

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Hope Poems

I was surrounded but alone,
which is the loneliness that cuts the most—
not the empty room at midnight
but the crowded room where you're a ghost.

Every laugh around me was not mine,
every conversation closed before I came,...

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The first drop falls before you hear the thunder—
a dark spot on the pale stone of the path,
and then the smell arrives, that ancient welcome,
the earth releasing all its held-back warmth.

Petrichor: the word the scientists gave...

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We ran out in the rain on purpose—
not toward shelter but toward the wet,
the puddles already forming on the path,
the best part of a summer not done yet.

No adult would have sent us—
this was our...

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Nothing puts you to sleep like rain on a roof—
the particular percussion of the drops,
the rhythm that has no ambition to repeat itself
and yet returns before the motion stops.

I have slept to it in houses I...

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The monsoon arrives like a long-promised letter,
late, as always, but carrying what it owes—
the fields tilt toward it with something like relief,
every blade of grass and root that knows.

The sky grows heavy in the weeks before...

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Life Poems

I stood at the window watching the rain
the way it made the street an impressionist painting—
the umbrellas moving like a colony of birds,
the lights in puddles wavering and fainting.

There is a quality of afternoon in rain...

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We ran barefoot through the summer grass
without once considering the glass—
the world was large enough to run in,
the afternoon too long to be slow.

The grass knew our weight by heart,
the path knew where we always...

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We played until the darkness came to find us—
not until a clock said time was up,
but until the light itself recalled us,
the dusk the only stop.

No one wanted to be the first to leave—
the game...

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She told her stories in the language of her hands,
the gestures filling in what words could not—
the demon larger than she could describe,
the hero braver than any school had taught.

We sat in the circle of her...

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The backpack was too big for the child carrying it—
it listed to the left on the way in,
but the pride was larger than the backpack,
and the pride leaned into it with a grin.

First day: the smell...

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Love Poems

Summer vacation was its own country—
a place that operated by different laws,
no alarm, no schedule, no particular purpose
except the great, ungoverned because.

The days were long in the way that only childhood
manages to stretch and hold...

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My mother tongue is a river I was born into—
before I knew that rivers had a name,
I was already swimming in its grammar,
already shaped by its syllabic flame.

Hindi: the language of my first lullabies,
the tongue...

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Maa—the shortest word for the largest thing,
two letters that carry the whole first world,
the smell of home, the sound of safety,
the life before the life was unfurled.

No translation captures it completely—
Maa belongs to the language...

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In a foreign city in a foreign winter
I dream of the Deccan in July—
the particular green of the post-monsoon fields,
the particular quality of that sky.

They say the homeland is in the language—
wherever Hindi is spoken,...

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The Ganga does not know our names—
it has been running too long for that—
but it has carried the prayers of ten thousand years
in its cold and patient current, fact by fact.

At its banks the oldest rituals...

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Mother Poems

The diyas know their purpose without instruction—
place them at the threshold and they light,
their small, specific, oil-fed determination
holding back the generous October night.

Diwali is not just light against the darkness—
it is the choosing of the...

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The old house has a smell that follows me—
into every house I have lived in since,
a ghost of wood and particular light
and the quality of every old offense

and kindness—the arguments held in the kitchen,
the laughter...

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There was a territory I have not returned to—
the specific geography of a grandmother's lap,
the warmth of it, the smell of it, the telling
of the story that began with once-upon-a and never had a gap.

She is...

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We scattered in the years after—
some north, some south, some simply deep into their lives—
and the geography we shared in school
became the country of the archive and the drives

of memory. The faces are still precise—
I...

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The old bicycle rusts in the corner of the shed—
wheels still true, the bell still workable—
a machine that carried me through the whole kingdom
of the neighborhood, before the maps were observable.

I knew every house by its...

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Motivational Poems

There was a time before the phone was everything—
before the pocket held the whole world's noise—
when boredom was a country you visited sometimes
and the silence was among the season's joys.

We showed up at each other's houses...

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